Senior DevOps Engineer — Scale Infra, Automate & Observability

Encord; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + equity

Growth opportunities

4 days/week in-person

Team lunches & dinners

Learning & development budget

Health, dental, and vision coverage

US 18 vacation days + holidays

Travel opportunities across US/UK/EU

Bi-annual offsites & monthly socials

Job summary

Encord is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our platform engineering team in New York. You will own deployment pipelines, design cloud infrastructure on GCP/AWS, and drive automation and reliability across the stack.

You will work on performance, capacity planning, and observability, building scalable systems with Kubernetes and modern tooling. We value initiative and collaboration in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE in production.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines at scale.
• Proficient with IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi) and config management.
• Solid design of resilient distributed and high‑performance systems.
• Hands-on Kubernetes in cloud environments (GCP/AWS).
• Networking, OS, and database fundamentals.
• Observability fundamentals: metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve deployment pipelines; champion DevOps practices across engineering.
• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infra on GCP/AWS; manage Kubernetes clusters.
• Build automation and internal tooling; reduce manual toil across teams.
• Profile and optimize services; perform capacity planning with squads.
• Define and own SLIs/SLOs/SLAs; create runbooks and lead blameless postmortems.
• Instrument services with tracing, logging, and metrics; ensure observability before prod.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

IaC tools

Cloud platforms

Observability

Networking basics

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

AWS

GCP

Python

Job description

Encord is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our platform engineering team in New York. You will own deployment pipelines, design cloud infrastructure on GCP/AWS, and drive automation and reliability across the stack.

You will work on performance, capacity planning, and observability, building scalable systems with Kubernetes and modern tooling. We value initiative and collaboration in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.